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past year questions, CUET English 2026 18 May Shift 1

Literary Devices

past year questions, Verbal Ability, CUET English 2026 18 May Shift 1

Medium

Read the following lines carefully and identify the figure of speech used:

"Romans, friends, countrymen, lend me your ears;

I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him"

Solution

✅ Correct Option: 1

In 'lend me your ears', a part (ears) stands for the whole (the listeners' attention). Using a part to represent the whole is synecdoche. Enjambment concerns run-on poetic lines, assonance is vowel repetition, and an anagram is a rearrangement of letters.

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